Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Founding Father. The workers in Mexico, the speaker in Central Park, and many another who marked the day, remembered that Bolívar was the liberator of four countries: his native Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, an area ten times the size of mother Spain; that he founded a fifth, Bolivia, once known as Upper Peru. They forgot his fatal quarrels with associates...
...province last year. According to Hill, everybody concerned is happy-the natural parents (in illegitimacy cases), the foster parents and the children. Dr. Whitton called Alberta's adoption system "unhappily casual." In particular she struck at Uncle Charlie's "export traffic in Alberta babies," reported that ten percent of all adopted Alberta babies last year went to U.S. applicants, many of whom arranged the whole thing by mail. Dr. Whitton suspected that some babies had "again changed hands . . . and for a consideration" in the U.S. adoption black market...
...second injection of Seliger's solution pulled the patient right out of his delirium. Less than ten hours after the treatment began, the man walked out, calm and clear of mind. After a week of treatment, he had entirely recovered...
This week, in the Journal of Clinical Psychopathology, Dr. Seliger made a report on his new ten-hour treatment for the D.T.s. He has used it "with safety and marked success," he said, in a number of "uncomplicated" cases. Dr. Seliger thinks that his treatment confirms his theory that one of the chief causes of the D.T.s is lack of food, especially vitamin...
...their favorites in the customary manner: by dumping buckets of water on their heads. In efficient Belgium, fire hoses were used. As the tour approached a town, police immobilized all traffic in the vicinity. Factories shut down. In Strasbourg, the Communist Par ty temporarily suspended its congress. Something like ten million people along the route saw the race...